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Read Me

			      Nwm 1.0.1
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1. Description

2. Requirements

3. Build

4. Run

5. Config file

6. Help 

7. Contacts

========= 1. Description ============

Nwm is a simple program that will let you run an x server and then a generic 
window manager (or other executable) into it. This software is a replacement 
of selectwm of witch this software would be an extension. Infact selectwm 
could not run different kind of window manager on different kind of server x. 
With selectwm you should before run xinit (xorg-x11), but i.e. you could not 
run xgl too. These because selectwm is designed to starts within .xinitrc, 
this mean a fixed x server: xorg-x11. While with nwm read lines from a config 
file, and then show them or in a text mode, or with ncurses library. 
When user select one line, nwm executes command part contained into that 
lines. In this way you're not obliged to put nwm into .xinitrc, so nwm is not 
dependent from a fixed server. 
This design feature has allowed me to run successfully:
		fluxbox with xorg,

		kde with xorg,

		kde with xgl.

========= 2. Requirements ============

To run Selectwm you need:
 - C compiler (i used only gcc-3.4.6)
 - A generic server x (tested only with: xgl and xorg)
 - ncurses >= 5.5-r2 
 - imake (used to create standard Makefile)

I know that it works on my Linux Box (i686) with Gentoo (it shouldn't be
too difficult to run it on another box. If it doesn't work for you, mail me, 
please).

========= 3. Build ============
To build nwm type (if you're reading this you're already into nwm main 
folder):

1. 	 cd src/
2. 	 xmkmf
3.	 make

========= 4. Run ============
To run nwm simply:

       ./nwm

Usually you may want that binary files resides into your home folder so you 
have to copy it there:

   	cp nwm $HOME

Now you have to run it typing from you home directory:

  	./nwm  

don't forget "./".

Else you can put nwm binary file to system wide binary directory 
(like /usr/bin). 
Then gives to binary file right permissions(as root do):

1.    cp nwm /usr/bin/
2.    cd /usr/bin
3.    chown root:root nwm
4.    chmod a+x nwm

Now you'll be able to run it without prefixing "./". As default nwm will looks
at user home directory to find a config file named ".nwm", but you can change
this behaviour with -c option.

========= 5. Config file ============       
As default nwm will looks at ".nwm" file as default config file. You can save 
your config file into your home directory with that name, so you'll be able to 
run nwm with:

	./nwm                 #without -c params.

At this point you must not modify your .xinitrc. You has only to create a 
valid config file and use nwm.
Into configuration file you should add a description and the command that 
must be executed, into .selectwmrc fashion. But no timeout are still supported.

Each row must contain:

       <description>=<server x>,<window manager>

For example:

       fluxbox=/usr/bin/xinit,/usr/bin/fluxbox
       kde=/usr/bin/xinit,/usr/kde/3.5/bin/startkde
       xgl=/usr/local/overlays/xgl-coffee/startxgl,kde,nvidia
       fluxbox=/usr/bin/xinit,/home/user//.fluxbox/fluxbox.sh

Last row will run a script that contains a custom fluxbox version. In this
way you can set up further other tool to run with fluxbox.

Config File Examples:
       'fluxbox=/usr/bin/xinit,/usr/bin/fluxbox'
	   to run fluxbox into xorg server
       'kde=/usr/bin/xinit,/usr/kde/3.5/bin/startkde'
           to run kde into xorg server
       'xgl=/usr/local/overlays/xgl-coffee/startxgl,kde,nvidia'
           to run kde into xgl
       'fluxbox=/usr/bin/xinit,/home/user//.fluxbox/fluxbox.sh'
           to run your fluxbox script into xorg server. 
	   Fluxbox script may contains some command sequence like:
                     /usr/bin/gkrellm2 -w &
                     /usr/bin/wmxmms &
                     /usr/bin/fluxbox
           Last row is needed, while previous are optional.

Nwm is realeased with a default config file. You can look at:

       sample.nwm_cfg

========= 6. Help ============       
If you run nwm with -m | --text-mode option you does not use ncurses library 
else nwm will automatically use them.

If you need to see all nwm options you can type: 

        nwm -h 

or you can type:

	nwm --help

you'll see following main options:

You can also use a few options:
-c, --config	<cfg>	select the config file (default .nwm)
-h, --help		prints this message
-m, --text-mode		disable ncurses
-t, --tty-number <tty>	will run your selection on different display then 
                        default(:0)	
-v, --version		prints version information

========= 7. Contacts ============       

For any problems feel free to send me a mail at alberto.negri@gmail.com.

Thanks for use nwm.
Alberto Negri